Sunday, September 30, 2012

Before returning to Dark Horse headquarters in Milwaukie, Oregon, David Scroggy - vice president of Product Development - stopped by Big Wow Art to again congratulate Doug on the 2012 Eisner Award nomination for The Art of Doug Sneyd.

Doug first met David at SDCC in 2007.

Doug prepares for his 3 p.m. signing at the Dark Horse Comics' exhibit.

Signing cards promoting Doug's 248-page book, launched in July 2011 at SDCC and now in a second printing.

Doug and I are always happy to have Jenny visit us at SDCC; she's currently writing her second episode for the CW's Supernatural and is a member of The Big Game Hunters, an LA-based sketch comedy troupe. She's also been writing gags for Doug the past few years.

When in San Diego a visit with Kei Acedera and Bobby Chui from Imaginism Studios is at the top of our "to do" list; Doug and I met them on a July 2007 Toronto to San Diego flight.

In addition to specializing in movie production and children's books, Imaginism Studios offers online art classes, such as Drawing Fundamentals, Character Design and Gesture Drawing. After visiting Kei, we went to see Bobby at the Schoolism booth.

Through Imaginism Studios, workshops are offered in Toronto, Vancouver, London, Rio de Janeiro and Florianopolis, Italy.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Doug and I met Pierre several years ago at SDCC; we always look forward to his stopping by the Big Wow Art booth. This year he couldn't resist buying one of Doug's 11 x17 watercolor originals.

Pierre has been a graphic designer with Conan O'Brien for 20 years; he's also been on-air with "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage."

Pierre also brought "LaBamba" to SDCC this year to meet Doug. He's been a member of the house band on Conan's late-night talk shows the past 20 years.

While Pierre and a friend were looking over Doug's 11 x 17 limited edition prints, Lynn Johnson - creator of "For Better or For Worse" and a 2012 Special Guest at SDCC - stopped by Doug's booth to show us one of her convention purchases.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

If attending the Montreal Comiccon, stop by Doug's booth (check program for location) to purchase his latest 11 x 17 limited edition print (1-50) - an EXCLUSIVE debuting at the September 14-16 convention.

Doug, exhibiting as a Featured Guest, will be happy to personalize limited edition prints, priced at $50.00 each.

Although Lori and her husband (from San Diego) had a busy day planned for Saturday, July 14 - SDCC in the morning and a concert that afternoon, she decided an 11 x17 commissioned sketch by Doug would be the perfect souvenir of her first SDCC!

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.